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Test Match Special, How To Win The Ashes: Alastair Cook on the 2010–11 Ashes series

Test Match Special

How To Win The Ashes: Alastair Cook on the 2010–11 Ashes series

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12 June 2023

29 minutes

Available for over a year

Alastair Cook relives an incredible individual performance during the 2010-11 Ashes down under. He had a poor record against Australia coming into the series, but ended it as England's top scorer with an astonishing 766 runs, including three centuries.

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